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Calvin on the Unity of the Church
Outline : Surprisingly, the primary accent in Calvin's ecclesiology falls on unity. The church is the body of Christ, of the Christ who cannot have two or three bodies. He is the Head of the one body. And for the elect, the point is that they are united and conjoined in Christ, are dependent on one Head and grow together into one body. For Calvin the unity of the church can have many differences in the structure and institutional forms of the church according to the different times and situations. The most important is that it had to start with the basic issue of faith in Jesus Christ as the Head of the church which is Christ's body. Most of large churches in Indonesia were influenced by a Calvinist background. Together with other churches, like Pentecostals, Evangelicals. Methodists, and Mennonites, etc., they joined the CCI to stand together in their common struggle for unity. In this context Calvin's view of the unity of the church could be meaningful and useful for the efforts they currently have.
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